Top 100

Top 500 Robert Greene Quotes (2024 Update)
Page 8 of 10

Robert Greene Quote: “You are a blank screen. Float through life noncommittally and people will want to seize you and consume you. Of all the parts of your body that draw this fetishistic attention, the strongest is the face; so learn to tune your face like an instrument, making it radiate a fascinating vagueness for effect.”
Robert Greene Quote: “The Athenians were one of the most eminently practical people in history, and they made the most practical argument they could with the Melians: When you are weaker, there is nothing to be gained by fighting a useless fight. No one comes to help the weak – by doing so they would only put themselves in jeopardy. The weak are alone and must submit. Fighting gives you nothing to gain but martyrdom, and in the process a lot of people who do not believe in your cause will die.”
Robert Greene Quote: “That is the power of formlessness – it gives the aggressor nothing to react against, nothing to hit.”
Robert Greene Quote: “Sometimes this fear of speculation masquerades as skepticism. We see this in people who delight in shooting down any theory or explanation before it gets anywhere. They are trying to pass off skepticism as a sign of high intelligence, but in fact they are taking the easy route – it is quite simple to find arguments against any idea and knock it down from the sidelines.”
Robert Greene Quote: “It has an edge because it is so different. Soon imitators pop up everywhere. It becomes a fashion, something to conform to, even if the comformity appears to be rebellious and edgy. This can drag on for ten, twenty years; it eventually becomes a cliche, ppure style without any real emotion or need.”
Robert Greene Quote: “The grammar of language locks us into certain forms of logic and ways of thinking. As the writer Sidney Hook put it, “When Aristotle drew up his table of categories which to him represented the grammar of existence, he was really projecting the grammar of the Greek language on the cosmos.” Linguists have enumerated the high number of concepts that have no particular word to describe them in the English language. If there are no words for certain concepts, we tend to not think of them.”
Robert Greene Quote: “Be Frugal with Flattery. It may seem that your superiors cannot get enough flattery, but too much of even a good thing loses its value. It also stirs up suspicion among your peers.”
Robert Greene Quote: “To be emperor of China was to be alone, surrounded by a pack of enemies – it was the least powerful, least secure position in the realm.”
Robert Greene Quote: “Leonardo was eager to learn all of these skills, but soon he discovered in himself something else: he could not simply do an assignment; he needed to make it something of his own, to invent rather than imitate the Master.”
Robert Greene Quote: “If they come from another culture, it is all the more important to understand this culture from within their experience.”
Robert Greene Quote: “If it is money, you will choose a place for your apprenticeship that offers the biggest paycheck. Inevitably, in such a place you will feel greater pressures to prove yourself worthy of such pay, often before you are really ready.”
Robert Greene Quote: “His mind, he decided, worked best when he had several different projects at hand, allowing him to build all kinds of connections between them.”
Robert Greene Quote: “The principle is simple and must be engraved deeply in your mind: the goal of an apprenticeship is not money, a good position, a title, or a diploma, but rather the transformation of your mind and character – the first transformation on the way to mastery.”
Robert Greene Quote: “Remember, your own image and presence are materials you can control. The sense that you are engaged in this kind of play will make people see you as superior and worthy of imitation.”
Robert Greene Quote: “As an explorer Columbus was mediocre at best. He knew less about the sea than did the average sailor on his ships, could never determine the latitude and longitude of his discoveries, mistook islands for vast continents, and treated his crew badly. But in one area he was a genius: He knew how to sell himself.”
Robert Greene Quote: “Events in life mean nothing if you do not reflect on them in a deep way, and ideas from books are pointless if they have no application to life as you live it.”
Robert Greene Quote: “Inter action with boldness.”
Robert Greene Quote: “So I’d gotten rid of that negativity and I’d show, “Well, here’s something done right. Here’s the mistake, but here’s how to fix the mistake.”
Robert Greene Quote: “Preserve the unspoken option of being able to leave at any moment and reclaim your freedom if the side you are allied with starts to collapse.”
Robert Greene Quote: “Never neglect the way you arrange things visually. Factors like color, for example, have enormous symbolic resonance.”
Robert Greene Quote: “It is often your own actions that stir up envy, your own unawareness. By becoming conscious of those actions and qualities that create envy, you can take the teeth out of it before it nibbles you to death.”
Robert Greene Quote: “The problem is, when things go verbal, you drop out the detail.”
Robert Greene Quote: “First, you must see your attempt at attaining mastery as something extremely necessary and positive.”
Robert Greene Quote: “The perfect victim is the person who stirs you in a way that cannot be explained in words, whose effect on you has nothing to do with superficialities. He or she often has a quality that you yourself lack, and may even secretly envy.”
Robert Greene Quote: “So much of power is not what you do but what you do not do – the rash and foolish actions that you refrain from before they get you into trouble.”
Robert Greene Quote: “Think of yourself as your own Zen Master. Such masters would beat their pupils and deliberately lead them to points of maximum doubt and inner tension, knowing such moments precede enlightenment.”
Robert Greene Quote: “Second, never imagine that because the master loves you, you can do anything you want. Entire books could be written about favorites who fell out of favor by taking their status for granted, for daring to outshine.”
Robert Greene Quote: “Although time is the critical factor in attaining Mastery and this intuitive feel, the time we are talking about is not neutral or simply quantitative. An hour of Einstein’s thinking at the age of sixteen does not equal an hour spent by an average high school student working on a problem in physics. It is not a matter of studying a subject for twenty years, and then emerging as a Master. The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus.”
Robert Greene Quote: “Arrange an occasional “chance” encounter, as if you and your target were destined to become acquainted – nothing is more seductive than a sense of destiny. Lull the target into feeling secure, then strike.”
Robert Greene Quote: “So after that I had a new rule. If I’m hired by the plant engineer, I only go over his head if I’m in project failure mode. If the project is going to fail, then I’ll go over his head. But as long as the project is going to come out, I never go over his head. Now, that’s a rule I still follow today.”
Robert Greene Quote: “In social situations we all wear masks, and keep our defenses up. It is embarrassing, after all, to reveal one’s true feelings. As a seducer you must find a way to lower these resistances.”
Robert Greene Quote: “Learning an alien culture from so deeply inside it, he could no longer accept the superiority of one particular belief or value system. To.”
Robert Greene Quote: “Our levels of desire, patience, persistence, and confidence end up playing a much larger role in success than sheer reasoning powers. Feeling motivated and energized, we can overcome almost anything. Feeling bored and restless, our minds shut.”
Robert Greene Quote: “This means that you move toward challenges that will toughen and improve you, where you will get the most objective feedback on your performance and progress. You do not choose apprenticeships that seem easy and comfortable.”
Robert Greene Quote: “One thing I designed, I’ve done a lot of work on improving kosher slaughter. They need to make a head holding device that would go on the end of the conveyer. A normal kosher head holding device, the thing is like a cradle that lifts up the head. If I have it on the end of a conveyer, how do I make this work?”
Robert Greene Quote: “To understand the peculiar power of the Coquette, you must first understand a critical property of love and desire: the more obviously you pursue a person, the more likely you are to chase them away.”
Robert Greene Quote: “The spider has no need to chase for food, or even to move. It quietly sits in the corner, waiting for its victims to come to it on their own, and ensnare themselves in the web.”
Robert Greene Quote: “The world is full of self-absorbed people. In their presence, we know that everything in our relationship with them is directed toward themselves – their insecurities, their neediness, their hunger for attention.”
Robert Greene Quote: “Too much attention early on will actually just suggest insecurity, and raise doubts as to your motives. Worst of all, it gives your targets no room for imagination.”
Robert Greene Quote: “If you are trying to destroy an enemy who has hurt you, far better to keep him off-guard by feigning friendliness than showing your anger.”
Robert Greene Quote: “You will know when your apprenticeship is over by the feeling that you have nothing left to learn in this environment.”
Robert Greene Quote: “We feel, perhaps unconsciously, that learning from Masters and submitting to their authority is somehow an indictment of our own natural ability, Even if we have teachers in our lives, we tend not to pay full attention to their advice, often preferring to do things our own way. In fact, we come to believe that being critical of Masters or teachers is somehow a sign of our intelligence, and that being a submissive pupil is a sign of weakness.”
Robert Greene Quote: “Never show anger, ill temper, or vengefulness, all disruptive emotions that will make people defensive. In the politics of large groups, welcome adversity as a chance to show the charming qualities of magnanimity and poise. Let others get flustered and upset – the contrast will redound to your favor. Never whine, never complain, never try to justify yourself.”
Robert Greene Quote: “So rid yourself of your nasty habit of avoiding conflict, which is in any case unnatural. You are most often nice not out of your own inner goodness but out of fear of displeasing, out of insecurity. Go beyond that fear and you suddenly have options – the freedom to create pain, then magically dissolve it. Your seductive powers will increase tenfold.”
Robert Greene Quote: “We are continually judging other people. We want others to think and act a certain way. Usually, the way we think and act. Because this is impossible, we continually get upset. Instead, we should see other people as phenomena, as neutral as comets or planets. They come in all varieties, which makes like rich and interesting.”
Robert Greene Quote: “The men who have changed the universe have never gotten there by working on leaders, but rather by moving the masses. Working on leaders is the method of intrigue and only leads to secondary results. Working on the masses, however, is the stroke of genius that changes the face of the world. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, 1769-1821.”
Robert Greene Quote: “Daily Law: Embrace your strangeness. Identify what makes you different. Fuse those things together and become an anomaly.”
Robert Greene Quote: “Leave martyrdom alone: The pendulum will swing back your way eventually, and you should stay alive to see it.”
Robert Greene Quote: “To understand the peculiar power of the Coquette, you must first understand a critical property of love and desire: the more obviously you pursue a person, the more likely you are to chase them away. Too much attention can be interesting for a while, but it soon grows cloying and finally becomes claustrophobic and frightening. It signals weakness and neediness, an unseductive combination.”
Robert Greene Quote: “When I left him, I reasoned thus with myself: I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, so I do not fancy I do. In this trifling particular, then, I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know. – Socrates.”
PREV 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 NEXT
Focus Quotes
Firsts Quotes
Romance Quotes
Quotes About Skills
Genius Quotes
Fashion Quotes
Desire Quotes
Luck Quotes
Creative Quotes
Motivational Quotes
Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes
Positive Quotes

Beautiful Wallpapers and Images

We hope you enjoyed our collection of 500 free pictures with Robert Greene Quotes.

All of the images on this page were created with QuoteFancy Studio.

Use QuoteFancy Studio to create high-quality images for your desktop backgrounds, blog posts, presentations, social media, videos, posters and more.

Learn more